Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...
One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig, a longtime resident of the protected area in southern Kenya, died of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over 20,000 African elephants are killed every year by poachers. “The global demand for ivory and rhino horn fuels poaching and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks. The research was published ...
The Dallas Zoo successfully repaired a fractured tusk on one of its 10,000-pound African elephants through surgery similar to a root canal. The procedure involved over 50 zoo staff and veterinarians, ...
FRESNO — An elephant at the Fresno Zoo with a bad habit of cracking his tusks has been stopped thanks to some added bling. The Fresno Bee reports that Fresno Chaffee Zoo's male African elephant ...
Dr. Doug Armstrong, left, the Omaha zoo's director of animal health, and Dan Cassidy, general curator, speak during a press conference on Warren the elephant's death Thursday. Elephants walk around in ...
The result: Some 30,000 African elephants are slaughtered every year, more than 100,000 between 2010 and 2012, and the pace of killing is not slowing. Most illegal ivory goes to China, where a pair of ...